What is your financial freedom worth to you? What are you willing to sacrifice for money? How much of yourself are you willing to give? For a lot of us, we are willing to give a lot of our time and energy for financial freedom. If nothing else, we spend the majority of our waking
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Understanding the Secret World of Credit Scores: Part 1
These days, everyone knows that your credit worthiness is more important than ever to getting what you want – when you want it. In the past, your good name was usually what mattered, allowing you to build new relationships with banks and others easily over time. How things have changed. Now everyone checks your credit
Cancellations Due to Swine Flu
I decided to write about article seeing as we have entered summer and many families might have booked off a trip to Mexico months in advance.Due to the increased activity in Swine Flu many airline suppliers have been cancelling or suspending travel. Today I am going to talk about how an RBC Visa card holder
Stop Silly Spending, & Start Shopping Smart
The way we spend our money is dependent on a lot of things. The current circumstances, our understanding of the situation, and our past experience. We are also influenced by our emotions, our rationality, and our desire to appease those that are around us. It is no wonder that we end up making conflicted choices
Oil sends Market Tumbling
The Toronto stock market was in the red this morning which was led by falling commodity stocks as oil and metal prices went down due to the cynicism about an economic recovery.The S&P/TSX composite index fell 289.3 points to 9,993.8. The energy sector was leading the fall, going down about 4% as the August crude
Forgiveness to Student Debt
The government has made dodging your student loans through bankruptcy difficult; they are not allowing those to stop paying for any reason. You have to show some kind of good excuse for not paying, even after the 5-7 years that the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act now allows for such debts to be wiped clean.You have
TSX Pushed to Higher Closing
Toronto’ Main Stock Index closed higher Friday as Teck Resources Ltd’s equity sale to China Investment Corp helped lift the resource market. However, trading volumes were thin due to Independence Day holiday in the United States.The deal Teck has made will allow it to pay its own debt, while expanding China’ portfolio of commodity investments;










